CORTEX RUBER, or. RED BARK. 201 
adjoining Morne Fortuné, and introduced into practice by 
Dr. Young, phyfician to his Britannic majefty’s troops. 
The frefhnefs of the bark, the little attention beftowed in 
drying | it, and the large dofes in which it was exhibited, 
produced alarming fits of vomiting and purging, and de- 
terred us, at that time, from the further profecution of the 
fubjeQ, until the other day that a treatife upon the red 
bark, by Dr. Saunders of London, and a belief which we 
entertained that this was the fame bark which he defcribes, 
induced us again to make a trial of it. Having properly 
dried it, and given it in the cold infufion with greater 
caution and in lefs dofes than at the firft eflay, we are now 
happy in afluring the public, that in moft inftances it has 
not difappointed us. Still, however, notwithftanding the 
utmoft care in drying it, in fome cafes it ftill feems to re- 
tain its emetic and purgative qualities, as the ftomach and 
firft paflages, in complaints here, are loaded with a quan- 
tity of putrid bile. Thefe are not its leaft valuable pro- 
perties. It will, however, be neceflary when thefe effects 
are produced, to check them afterwards by opiates. 
With regard to its preparations: I have generally given 
it in the cold infufion either made with lime or cinnamon 
water. An extract made with fpirits and water fits eafi- 
ly on the ftomach and can be given in larger quantities. 
In fome late cafes of tertians, where I have been cal- 
led to the patient during the fecond fit; without watch- 
ing for its going off, | have begun with this bark, which 
effectually cleanfed the ftomach and bowels, and paved 
the way for its future adminiftration. 
- In putrid dyfenteries, and in a remarkable fpecies of 
dyfentery, conjoined with an intermittent fever, which I 
have met with here, the bark has done more than all the 
remedies which I have feen employed. The purgative 
effects which it produced enabled us to throw it in earli- 
er; the hardened fcybula, the fupport of the difeafe, were: 
removed: 
